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Re: Crested Mynah



I am very amused. If you keep a list, why should you give a d___ what the
ABA tells you what can & cannot be counted. But, maybe that is why I don't
keep a list.


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> From: tominbrevard@webtv.net (Tom Joyce)
> Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 23:15:21 -0400 (EDT)
> To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
> Subject: Crested Mynah
> 
> C'Birders,
> This report may be technically ineligible for consideration on this
> listserv,but some weeks ago, Josh Rose reported that he had seen an item
> on the MA listserv indicating that the last survivor of the Crested
> Mynah population in Vancouver, BC had disappeared, apparently evincing
> the fact that this exotic species had not been able to maintain a viable
> population in the area.
> 
> Josh went on to mention that the ABA had decreed, that in the absence of
> an ongoing population, those birders who had previously recorded the
> species on their life lists would be required to delete this sighting.
> 
> As someone who had traveled to Vancouver, and saw probably the last of
> the species on Sept. 9, 2001 (two days before WTC),I seriously
> questioned the logic of the ABA's ex-post facto decision to invalidate
> sightings of the species before its demise. Accordingly, I contacted the
> ABA to contest their interpretation. After a number of false starts, I
> finally received a message from Executive Director, Paul Green, stating
> that the matter has been referred to the ABA Checklist Committee for
> clarification. I have been promised a report of its decision.
> 
> I thought that this is a matter which would be of interest to all
> C'Birders. I will apprise you of the outcome.
> 
> Tom Joyce
> Brevard, NC
>